{"id":109516,"date":"2026-04-25T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109516"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:17:22","slug":"nigerian-footballer-michael-eniramo-has-died-of-a-heart-attack-during-a-friendly-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/nigerian-footballer-michael-eniramo-has-died-of-a-heart-attack-during-a-friendly-match\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Nigerian footballer Michael Eniramo has died of a heart attack during friendly match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA: According to foreign media, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the death of former <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/brazilian-footballer-kathleen-souza-embraces-islam-performs-umrah\/\">footballer Michael Eniramo Dostana<\/a>, saying that 40-year-old Michael Eniramo was playing a match in the Ungwan Yola area of \u200b\u200bKaduna on Friday morning when he suddenly collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports, the incident occurred a few minutes into the second half of the match. Medical assistance was attempted, but he could not be revived. Doctors initially attributed his death to a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Eniramo had represented various clubs in Africa, Europe and the Middle East in his career. He also played 10 international matches for the Nigerian national team, the \u201cSuper Eagles\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was well known for his powerful physique and aggressive style of play and was also known by fans as \u201cThe Tank\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA: According to foreign media, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the death of former footballer Michael Eniramo Dostana, saying that 40-year-old Michael Eniramo was playing a match in the Ungwan Yola area of \u200b\u200bKaduna on Friday morning when he suddenly collapsed. According to initial reports, the incident occurred a few minutes into the second half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":109520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40871],"class_list":["post-109516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-nigerian-footballer-michael-eniramo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109521,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109516\/revisions\/109521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}